Compression of the brachial plexus during right lobe liver donation as a cause of brachial plexus injury: A case report

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 233-235

  Dulitz, Michael G ^a   De Wolf, Andre M ^a   Wong, Hak ^a   Wray, Chris ^a   Sherwani, Saadia ^a   Herborn, Josh ^a   Sufit, Robert L ^a   Koffron, Alan J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; HYPOTENSION; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 13944260191     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20343     Document Type: Article

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